[4] Pressure from the residents of Bramley Vale led to one being built and opened on 1 September 1892 as "Glapwell".

[8][9] Normal passenger traffic along the Doe Lea Branch dwindled over the years and finally ceased on 28 July 1930.

As its sidings left the passenger line to the North of the station and all coal went out northwards, the station was abandoned along with the track southwards through Rowthorn Tunnel to Pleasley Colliery West Junction a short distance South of Pleasley West.

When Glapwell Colliery closed in 1974 the line South of Bolsover Castle station became redundant, though it was not lifted until 1978.

The trackbed south from Bolsover Castle almost to Glapwell at the bottom of Rylah Hill between Palterton and M1 J29 is now a public bridleway known as The Stockley Trail.